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Research links heart rate fluctuations and wise judgement

You may have grey hair and your report cards from school showed straight As, but it's your heart that can tell whether you are wise.

I’m not a scientist. And chances are, neither are you.
That likely means we both find ourselves deferring to the opinion of others, of experts who know more about complex matters — like health or nuclear safety or vaccinations or climate change — than we do.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that drawing pictures of information that needs to be remembered is a strong and reliable strategy to enhance memory.

Writers, poets, and philosophers have continually searched for le mot juste, the right word, to describe human suffering. Of course there is dukkha, the Buddhist theory that pain arises out of attachment and impermanence; weltschmerz, the German term for ennui provoked by the clashing of the real world with an ideal one.

Geoff Fong has been awarded a 2016 “Excellence in Arts Research Award”.

The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Mental Health Research (CMHR) has expanded its range of mental health care for the local community with a specialized assessment service for veterans, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP. The service was created by an important new partnership with Parkwood Institute’s Operational Stress Injury Clinic (OSIC) part of St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s).

Psychology’s own John Holmes (Distinguished Professor Emeritus) has been presented with the International Association of Relationship Researchers Distinguished Career Award.  

Henri (Hansky) Santos was this year’s winner of the Warren Ober Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student in the Faculty of Arts. The award is granted to a graduate students who has made significant contributions to teaching within the Faculty of Arts.

Congratulations Henri!